Saturday, May 28, 2011

These are Milt's roughs from Mary Poppins. Thanks to his assistants at the time who were clever enough to make copies of his animation drawings before they worked over them so we can appreciate his first passes.

I love the way Milt drew and designed horses. It has influenced artists to these day. Just look at the horses in Tangled or Road to Eldorado for instance and you will see Milt's influence in them.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

This is a scene I animated for Axterix and the Vikings, an animated feature produced in Europe.
In this particular scene, in which I animated all characters, the kid is supposed to be a great dancer but not the girl, who is a daughter of a viking and only knows how to fight. She tries to dance but her moves are more like if she was fighting.
The director told me I should look at Justin Timberlake or Michael Jackson for the kid's moves. I chose Michael and looked at his video clips and took a little bit from every one and combined into this scene, also adding a few moves of my own (On paper, of course because I can not dance).

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Here are a few more drawings from two of my favorites, Jungle Book and Sword in the Stone. I love the designs and animation of these two films. All characters designed by Milt. Here are drawings from three of his scenes . Enjoy.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

I had no idea that there were other animated versions for Winnie the Pooh and I was delighted to find this great Russian version and I feel in love with it.
It has great design, timing, animation and voices. The animation is particular good because it's so simple. I am so used to do or trying to do more complex animation and when I saw this I felt that you can also communicate with very simple animation, with no gimmicks. I thought the Russian animators did it just right, with sincerity, with no formulaic movements.
I think I will have to re-think my way of animating after seeing this, which is difficult, but gave me a lot of inspiration.
I hope you enjoy it too. There are other great episodes of it on Youtube, check them all out, specially the one with Eeyore, just great.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

This is a drawing of Dr. Facilier from Princess and the Frog. I did this when I got back at the Disney studio to work on the film and had not been assigned to any character yet. I was just practicing the characters I liked.

This is a Christmas card I did during the production of Disney's The Emperor's New Groove. I used one of my favorite characters that I was the lead of. He was a very nervous guy and so afraid of the Emperor that he would shake and stammers. It was fun to do. Designed by Joe Moshier.

This is a character that I created to do a story for a proposed comic book by some Disney animators. The project never happened.

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I started working in animation at the age 15 as an inbetweener. I learned on the job, working on TV commercials from 1985 to 1990. In the summer of 1990 I went to Ireland and applied to work at the Don Bluth's studio and was hired as an Animator. I worked there for four years until Don Bluth and the crew relocated to Phoenix, Arizona to start Fox Animation Studios. I re-joined them there and worked on "Anastasia" for two years.
After that I applied to Disney Feature Animation in Burbank and was hired to work on "Fantasia 2000", animating the "Sprite" running away from the "Firebird". After that I worked as a Lead Animator on "The Emperor's New Groove", helped a little on "Tarzan" and became a Supervising Animator on "Home on the Range". During the production of Home on the Range I moved to Disney Florida to work on the, now shelved, production of "My People's". I moved back to Brazil and spent the next four years working as a freelancer Animator on projects such as Disney's "Enchanted", "Axterix and the Vikings", "Proud Family" and “Curious George”.
In 2008 I was hired to work on The Secret of the Furious Five and as an Animator on Disney's "The Princess and the Frog".